I heart hearts

Instead of the usual warnings about the end of American democracy and what not, I thought I’d turn my eye this week to a concern of equal importance — the use of “heart” as a verb. \nIt all started with “I [heart symbol] NY,” an innocuous-enough phrase plastered on posters and T-shirts from coast to coast. The rebus was a winking gag bound solely for the bumper sticker and its ilk. Then, of course, the Internet had to get involved. Suddenly the emoticon